Do you want to prepare a nutritious and tasty side dish for your child that you can serve the whole family for breakfast, eat as dessert for lunch, and eat for dinner? Then be sure to add porridge with pumpkin for your child to the menu!
If pumpkin porridge is prepared correctly, it becomes not just tasty, but also an incredibly healthy dish for children. Pumpkin dishes are necessary in baby food, as they contain a lot of vitamins and perfectly remove toxins, so it is recommended to be eaten by children with weakened immune systems, and in order to quickly remove antibiotics from the body after an illness.
Pumpkin porridge for a child can be prepared with almost any cereal.
Rice porridge with pumpkin
We will need the following ingredients:
- two hundred milliliters of water
- two hundred milliliters of milk;
- half a glass of rice (preferably round);
- about seventy grams of pumpkin;
- ten grams sl. oils;
- Art. l. Sahara;
- salt.
- We sort the rice and rinse thoroughly under running water. Place the cleaned grains into the prepared pan. Fill with the specified volume of water, add salt. Cook for 10 minutes at a low boil.
- While the rice is cooking, we prepare the pumpkin. We peel it, select the seeds, and cut off the fibrous edge. Grate on a coarse grater.
- After the rice has been boiled for 10 minutes and is almost ready, pour milk into the container with it, add sugar, and transfer the grated vegetable.
- Bring the porridge to a boil and cook for another 10 minutes.
- Rice porridge with pumpkin is ready for your baby. All that remains is to add butter and you can serve.
Pumpkin dishes for children 2 years old
Pumpkin dishes for 2 years old can be more varied. Kids at this age are already “familiar” with many products. In addition, it is no longer necessary to thoroughly puree the dish; a 2-year-old child can already chew food in pieces.
Pumpkin porridge
Milk pumpkin porridge is very easy to prepare and can also be offered to older children.
- 400 gr. peeled pumpkin;
- 1 glass of milk;
- 0.5 teaspoon salt;
- 0.5 teaspoon sugar;
- 2 teaspoons butter.
Cut the peeled pumpkin into small cubes. Pour milk into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Dip pumpkin cubes into boiling milk. Bring to a boil and cook over very low heat until soft. Cooking will take about 20 minutes.
Beat the finished pumpkin with milk using a blender. If you don’t have a blender, you can grind it through a sieve or just mash the pieces well with a fork. Then put the resulting porridge back on the stove, add salt and sugar, stir. Bring to a boil. Turn off the heat and add butter to the hot porridge, stir until the butter dissolves. The porridge is ready.
Delicate casserole of pumpkin and cottage cheese
Both cottage cheese and pumpkin are products that are extremely healthy for the baby. But not all little picky eaters agree to eat them. However, even those children who refuse to eat fresh cottage cheese enjoy eating the casserole prepared according to the recipe. However, adults will also like this dish.
- 500 gr. pumpkins;
- 400 gr. cottage cheese;
- 4 tablespoons semolina;
- 3 eggs;
- 0.5 cups sugar;
- 3 tablespoons sour cream;
- 100 gr. butter;
- 1 sachet (10 g) vanilla sugar.
Warm the milk to room temperature and pour it over the semolina. Let the cereal stand for 30 minutes, during which time it will swell. If not all the milk has been absorbed, then it needs to be drained, but not poured out yet.
Meanwhile, cut the pumpkin into small cubes, the length of the edge of the cube is about 1 cm.
Pour a small amount of water over the pumpkin; the water should barely cover the cubes. Bring to a boil and, reducing heat, simmer until soft. It will take about 20 minutes to simmer. Drain the broth and mash it into a puree.
Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve or beat with a blender. Grind the eggs with added sugar. Turn on the oven to heat up, setting the heating temperature to 200 degrees. Mix cottage cheese with pumpkin puree and eggs with sugar, add the swollen semolina.
Mix everything, add sour cream. Mix well again.
Let's melt the butter. Grease the mold with some of the oil, pour the rest of the oil into the curd mass, add vanilla sugar. Mix everything well again. The mixture should be similar in consistency to pancake dough. If it turns out too thick, add a little milk.
Place the mixture in a greased pan and bake for 45 minutes at 180 degrees. Cut the casserole into pieces.
Soup "Orange Joy"
Prepare your baby a delicious creamy soup with pumpkin and turkey.
- 30 gr. turkey fillet;
- 50 gr. pumpkins;
- 30 gr. potatoes;
- 30 gr. carrots;
- 30 gr. onions;
- 150 ml milk;
- 200 ml water;
- 5 gr. butter.
We wash a piece of turkey fillet, cut it into small cubes and set to cook. We clean the vegetables. Cut the pumpkin and potatoes into small cubes, finely chop the onion, you can cut the carrots into circles or grate them.
Remove the foam from the boiling broth and put the potatoes and pumpkin into it. After five minutes, add carrots and onions to the pan, pour in milk. Cook over low heat until the vegetables are completely soft. Remove the soup from the heat and blend with an immersion blender. Season the finished soup with a piece of butter.
Wheat porridge
To prepare we will need:
- pumpkin - two hundred and fifty grams;
- two hundred and fifty milliliters of milk;
- a third of a glass of wheat cereal;
- sugar - ¼ cup.
- Peel the vegetable, remove the internal seeds, and cut into small pieces.
- Transfer the chopped vegetable to the pan in which you are waiting to cook the porridge. An important condition: the container must be deep enough. You must take into account that when boiling, foam will form, and the dish can escape onto the stove. Therefore, it is important to monitor the cooking process, and it is also recommended to fill the pan so that there are seven centimeters left to the top.
- We wash the wheat grains with running water and remove any debris from them. Place the washed cereal in a saucepan with pumpkin.
- Pour out sugar, add salt. Fill the ingredients with milk. It is important that the liquid completely covers all components of the dish.
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- The cooking process takes about an hour. It is important to stir periodically to prevent burning and sticking to the bottom. The longer you cook, the more delicate the taste of the dish will be.
- When serving porridge to your child, add butter to it. You can also flavor the porridge with sour cream.
Oatmeal with pumpkin
We will need:
- oatmeal - one glass;
- one hundred grams of pumpkin pulp;
- milk - three hundred milliliters;
- a little sugar;
- small piece of sl. oils
To speed up the process of preparing oatmeal, you must first soak it in milk.
- Peel the vegetable and cut it into small pieces. Cook for 15 minutes with a little water added.
- Grind the pumpkin until pureed. Add the oatmeal and milk to it and let it cook for ten minutes with constant stirring.
- Before serving, add butter and sprinkle the porridge with sugar.
Millet
We will need:
- two hundred grams of millet;
- three hundred grams of pumpkin;
- half a liter of milk;
- a tablespoon of sugar;
- twenty grams sl. oils
- Peel and cut the pumpkin. Place it in a non-stick pan.
- Pour in milk, salt, turn on low heat and cook until tender. It is important to ensure that the milk does not burn or run off onto the stove.
- Wash the millet thoroughly. Leave for a few minutes to dry. Add the cereal to the pan with the other components of the future porridge, and bring to a boil while constantly stirring over medium heat.
- Preheat the oven to 170 degrees. Transfer the porridge to a baking container. Add sugar and mix everything well with a spoon. Send to bake for 30 minutes under the lid. After this time, it is recommended to infuse the porridge (10 minutes).
- Add oil to the finished dish. Millet porridge with pumpkin for a child will be even tastier if you add raisins or dried apricots to it.
Simple millet porridge with milk in a saucepan
Now I decided to show one of the simple options for cooking millet porridge. The only difficulty here is the procedure for washing the cereal. Then proceed according to the presented plan.
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Grocery list:
- a glass of millet;
- 2 tbsp. milk and water;
- a teaspoon of sugar and salt;
- butter.
Cooking time – 20 minutes.
Step-by-step action plan.
Step 1. Rinse the cereal thoroughly. Place in a saucepan and immediately cover with water and milk.
Step 2. Place salt and sugar in a saucepan and stir. Boil, then cook for 20 minutes over moderate heat.
Don't forget to stir while cooking, otherwise everything will burn. Once cooked, cover with a lid. Then place on plates and season with butter.
Features of choosing a pumpkin
The success of a delicious porridge largely depends on the sweetness of the pumpkin
- When choosing a vegetable, it is important to pay attention to the condition of the peel. There must be no scratches, stains, dents on the surface of the pumpkin, or traces of mold. It is important to have an elastic and dense peel.
- It must be taken into account that a large pumpkin loses its sweetness. It is better to give preference to vegetables weighing no more than 5 kg. An important feature: it should weigh more than it appears to be.
- It is recommended to buy pumpkin in the fall, during the harvesting season of this vegetable. It is better if you freeze the pumpkin and use it in the winter, taking it out of your freezer, than buying it in a supermarket, where it can be processed to extend its shelf life.
Cooking errors
You have already noticed how long the fruit is cooked in all recipes - 20-25 minutes. This is a lot, and for good reason. It's all about the special fibrous structure of the orange beauty. If you don’t finish cooking it, the finished dish will contain fibers, which your baby won’t like and he may even refuse to eat it.
Also, the structure of the product is quite dense compared to zucchini, cauliflower and broccoli - they are easily kneaded into porridge after 15 minutes of cooking. Not so with pumpkin.
If you cook it not long enough, lumps may appear in the finished dish even after blending. This can cause a gag reflex in the baby. Especially if you start complementary feeding with vegetables and these are one of your first foods, and you are about 7 months old.
Moreover, it is forbidden to give raw pumpkin to infants - this is already completely dangerous for the delicate stomach, which will probably not cope with digestion and the baby will suffer from indigestion or poisoning.
Therefore, be careful, now you know how to prepare pumpkin for complementary feeding correctly.
Cooking tips
- If you cook porridge with milk, use a container with a non-stick coating and thick walls.
- During the cooking process, porridge requires constant supervision. Otherwise, she may run onto the stove. A slow cooker and an oven have an advantage in this regard, however, the porridge will cook faster on the stove.
- To speed up the cooking process, you need to chop the pumpkin into as small pieces as possible or grate it on a coarse grater.
- You can add natural spices to the dish, such as cinnamon, vanilla (if the child is already familiar with them).
- For older kids, pumpkin porridge can be diluted by adding cream.
- Cereals and pumpkin can be varied with dried apricots, raisins, prunes or apples.
Now you know that pumpkin porridge for a child can have a new taste every time, you just need to change the cereal or add dried fruits. When introducing your baby to a new dish, take into account the characteristics of his body, a history of allergies or cases of individual intolerance. In such a situation, acquaintance should be gradual and under supervision. It is important that at the time you get acquainted with pumpkin porridge, your little one is already adapted to the components included in the dish you have chosen.
